[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1583: Carpet default poison value should not be NaN

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#1583: Carpet default poison value should not be NaN
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 Reporter:  hinder       |       Owner:  eschnett           
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  optional     |   Milestone:                     
Component:  Carpet       |     Version:  development version
 Keywords:               |  
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 Carpet initialises Cactus variables to NaN as this is a quantity which is
 likely to be noticed.  However, this makes it impossible to know when you
 see a NaN whether you have a programming error (accessing uninitialised
 memory) or a numerical problem (numerical solution has blown up).

 I usually set the carpet poison value to something else; a value like
 10^230 is just as likely to be noticed as a NaN, and when you see exactly
 that value, you know that you are looking at uninitialised data, rather
 than a computation which went wrong.

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